I'm a consultant in instructional technology and online learning with the FSU Office of Distance Learning, where I am the Associate Director for Instructional Development, coordinating a team of seven faculty and four media specialists whose goal is to promote online instructional quality across the entire university. I suppose I can call myself an international scholar, since I've accepted invitations from universities in Finland, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to speak on faculty development, online course design, and new communication technologies.

An avid student of environmental communication, I combined that with my interests in new media in my 2014 dissertation, which examined the circulation of Nature tropes and ideologies in and around the multiuser virtual environment of Second Life. I've published and presented research on Florida's environmental history, Nature in advertising, visual rhetoric and new media, gender performance, and related areas within a qualitative, critical/culture studies tradition. I am a founding and supporting member of the International Environmental Communication Association and served as the publications director for the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association in 2014-15.

My life-work history embraces a wide range of disciplines, from mechanical engineering and statistical process control in the manufacturing industry to teaching Theatre for junior-high schoolers. I've taught Creative Writing and Public Speaking to community college students and Computer Essentials to senior citizens. I've performed troubleshooting on interactive laserdisc-based training systems in Florida's prisons, edited newsletters, written graphical user interfaces from scratch--even slept in firehouses and rode with firefighters while performing job-task analyses. I've been honored with awards for academic papers, machinima, weird fiction, scholarly achievement, and quality performance. My photography has been used by the Nature Conservancy, the Tampa Tribune, and Wikipedia, and I've played lead roles in community theatre productions and performed live readings of my own works.

I live in Tallahassee with my wife, a university librarian and fellow craft-beer aficionado. She, my two daughters, and my grandson are the best things that ever happened to me. Whenever possible, I kayak or dive the springs and reefs of Florida.